International

21-04-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ AHMEDABAD: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in India Thursday touting job-creating investment but facing long odds to get his reluctant counterpart Narendra Modi to back Western action against Russia. Johnson arrived in Gujarat, Modi’s home state and the ancestral home to half …

21-04-2022 LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a step closer to being extradited to the United States following an order by a United Kingdom court. With Assange supporters gathered outside, the Westminster Magistrates’ court in London formally issued an order on Wednesday to extradite the Australian to the US to …

21-04-2022 ISTANBUL/ JERUSALEM GAZA/: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will hold a call with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog on Tuesday, after Israeli interventions on Palestinian worshippers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque last week, Turkey’s foreign minister said. On Friday, at least 152 Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli riot police inside …

21-04-2022 MOSCOW: A Russian billionaire sanctioned by the West over the Ukraine war has denounced Moscow’s “massacre” in its neighboring country and called on Western leaders to help end this “crazy” conflict. Oleg Tinkov, 54, claimed online on Tuesday that 90 percent of his countrymen were against President Vladimir Putin’s …

21-04-2022 Bureau Report BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: China has imported Pakistani pine nuts in the first two months of this year touching a historical figure of US $17.67 million, according to General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GACC). In the first two months of 2022, China imported 1,606.51 …

20-04-2022 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA/ KYIV/ MOSCOW: Ukraine has posted a cache of uncensored satellite images from Google Maps, which shows some of Russia’s many military sites. It claims Google has “opened access to Russia’s military and strategic facilities”, but the tech giant has denied it. The photos have been posted …

20-04-2022 PARIS: French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Tuesday that Emmanuel Macron was not guaranteed to win the April 24 runoff in the presidential election against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. “The game is not done and dusted,” Castex told France inter radio. “One puts Emmanuel Macron and Marine …

20-04-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ SYDNEY: China said on Tuesday it had signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands, a move set to heighten the concerns of the United States and allies Australia and New Zealand about growing Chinese influence in a region traditionally under their sway. The …

19-04-2022 By SJA Jafri LAHORE: A Pakistan court Monday sentenced six men to death and dozens more to jail terms ranging from two years to life for the brutal mob slaying of a Sri Lankan factory manager accused of blasphemy. The vigilante attack in Sialkot last December 3 caused outrage, …

19-04-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least six Shia Afghanis including students have been martyred and dozens wounded after two blasts targeted a boys’ school in the Afghan capital’s Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood, a Kabul police spokesman has said. Khalid Zadran told media on Tuesday that two improvised …